The English question needs an answer

The English question will need an answer

Whatever the result of the independence vote, change is coming to all corners of the Kingdom

By Allan Massie

7:18PM GMT 31 Dec 2013

In September, we in Scotland may vote for independence, thus bringing the United Kingdom, which came into being when the Treaty of Union was signed in 1707, to an end. As Michael Caine might have said, “Not a lot of people know that” or, more precisely, a lot of people in England don’t seem to have realised that this may happen. Some of those who have are, it seems, quite relaxed about it. They think they might be better off if they were rid of us, and many assume that our departure would free them from the possibility of ever again suffering a Labour government.